Feminism and queer theory: Allies or antagonists?

Australian Feminist Studies

Volumn 12, Issue 26, 1997, Pages 293-298

  Williams, Carolyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

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EID: 26444593484     PISSN: 08164649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08164649.1997.9994869     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. J. Butler, 'Against Proper Objects', differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, vol. 6, nos 2/3, 1994, p. 1.
2. For discussions of gender (and racial) tensions within Queer organisations see D. Halperin, Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography (Oxford University Press) New York and Oxford, 1995, p. 64;
3. A. Stein, 'Sisters and Queers: The Decentering of Lesbian Feminism', Socialist Review, vol. 22, no. 1, 1992, p. 50;
4. S. Phelan, Getting Specific: Postmodern Lesbian Politics (University of Minnesota Press) Minneapolis, 1994, pp. xi, 153-4.
5. E.K. Sedgwick, Epislemology of the Closet (1990) (Penguin) Harmonsdworth, 1994.
6. This outline of the lesbian feminism and its case against s/m draw's on the works of Sheila Jeffreys. Although her major writings post-date Rubin's article and the United States 'sex wars', hers is the most elaborated exposition of a longer standing lesbian feminist position on s/m. See Anticlimax: A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution (Women's Press) London, 1990
7. The Lesbian Heresy: A Feminist Perspective on the Lesbian Sexual Revolution (Spinifex Press) Melbourne, 1993.
8. G. Rubin, 'Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality' in C.S. Vance (ed.), Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality (Routledge & Kegan Paul) London, 1984, pp. 267-319.
9. G. Rubin, with J. Butler, 'Sexual Traffic', differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, vol. 6, nos 2/3, 1994, pp. 62-9.
10. See Butler, 'Against Proper Objects';
11. B. Martin, 'Sexualities without Genders and Other Queer Utopias', diacritics, vol. 24, nos 2/3, 1994, pp. 104-21;
12. B. Martin, 'Extraordinary Homosexuals and the Fear of Being Ordinary', differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, vol. 6, nos 2/3, 1994, pp. 100-25.
13. Martin, 'Sexualities without Genders and Other Queer Utopias' and 'Extraordinary Homosexuals and the Fear of Being Ordinary'.
14. Butler, 'Against Proper Objects'.
15. Butler, 'Against Proper Objects'.
16. E. Grosz, 'Experimental Desire: Rethinking Queer Subjectivity' in J. Copjec (ed.), Supposing the Subject (Verso) London and New York, 1994, pp. 133-57;
17. T. de Lauretis, 'Queer Theory: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities', differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, vol. 3, no. 2, 1991, pp. v-xviii;
18. Butler, 'Against Proper Objects', 'Sexual Traffic' and 'Gender as Performance: An Interview with Judith Butler', Radical Philosophy, no. 67, 1994, pp. 32-9;
19. E. Hammonds, 'Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality', differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, vol. 6, nos 2/3, 1994, pp. 126-45.